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Crackdown on “Forever Chemicals” Intensifies — Refrigerant Industry Faces Pressure to Adapt At the ATMO America Summit in June 2025, Anna Reade, Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), highlighted growing resist...

Performance Gap Between Ratings and Real-World Use: Enhancing Trust Through Standards and Innovation Air-to-air heat pumps are considered an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional fossil fuel heating systems. They use a sma...

Navigating the PFAS Debate: Balancing Science and Policy in the Refrigerant Industry On June 26, 2025, Refrigerants Australia released a draft position statement on PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), aiming to bring scientific c...

Major Impact on the Refrigerant Industry: Public Consultation Now Open to All The widely used European standard EN 378:2016—which governs safety and environmental requirements for refrigeration, air conditioning, and heat pump systems—is...

A Key to Industrial Decarbonization: Heat Pump Manufacturing Becomes a Priority for State Aid On June 25, 2025, the European Commission officially adopted a new state aid framework known as the Clean Industry Support Framework (CISAF). I...

Revolutionary Sensor Brings Real-Time Air Quality Monitoring to the Personal LevelBosch Sensortec Unveils World’s Smallest PM Sensor, “BMV080” In 2025, Bosch Sensortec introduced the BMV080, the world’s smallest particulate matter (PM) s...

North America's Food Industry Shaped by Shifts in Retail and Surging Demand for Cold Storage Infrastructure According to the latest ATMO report, U.S. supermarket sales in 2024 declined by 1.8% year-over-year to $829.9 billion. In contras...

TFA: The Hidden “Forever Chemical” in Low-GWP HFO Refrigerants Raises New Environmental Concerns The global phase-out of ozone-depleting refrigerants such as CFCs and HCFCs under the Montreal Protocol, and the gradual reduction of high-G...

Samsung and Johns Hopkins APL Unveil Breakthrough Thin-Film Peltier Cooling Technology Achieves up to 75% improvement in cooling efficiency without refrigerants Reduces material usage by a factor of 1,000, simplifying manufacturing Appli...

Energy-saving, silent, and eco-friendly cooling—without compressors The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has announced a breakthrough cooling technology that could transform refrigerators, air conditioners, and b...